Combined laundry and cook stove



(No Model.)

J. T. DUGDALE.

COMBINED LAUNDRY AND 000K STONE.

Patented Sept. 20, 1887.

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JOSEPH T. DUGDALE, OF STaLOUIS, MISSOURI.

COMBINED LAUNDRY AND COOK STOV.

SPECIFICATEON forming part of Letters Patent No. 370,249, dated September 20, 1887.

Application tiled March 7, 1887. *Serial No. 229,960. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, Josnrn T. DUGDL'E, of St. Louis, Missouri, have made a new and useful Improvement in a Combined Laundry, Cook, and Heating Stove, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The tire-pot of a laundry-stove as hitherto made contracts upwardly, and the sad-irons when heating incline inwardly against their respective bearings upon the lire-pot shell,and they are sufficiently held in place by resting the heel of the sad-iron against a ledge at the lower end ofthe bearing. To provide for such inwardly-inclined bearings the tire-pot at its upper end is necessarily contracted, and hence there is generally insufficient space within the fire-pot above the. fuel for the proper consnmption of the gases and the stove-top is hardly large enough to be of much use for cooking purposes. Y

By means of the present improvement a stove is obtained which is useful for laundry work, for cooking, and for heating. The iirepot enlarges upwardly, there is more space above the burning fuel for its thorough conv sumption, the stove-top is more extended, and the sad-irons are held in place by means of a rail, which is also useful asa foot-rail, all substantially as is represented in the annexed drawings, making part of this speciiication and exhibiting the most desirable mode of carrying out the improvement, in which- Figure l is a view in perspective ot' the stove. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 of Fig. 3, and Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2.

The same letters of reference denote the same parts.

A represents the stove-base; B, the ash-pit; C, the lire-pot, and D the stove-top. Saving as modilied by the improvement in question, the stove is constructed in the customary man: ner. The lire-pot, as stated, enlarges from its lower end upward toits top. I he bearings for the sad-irons E are shown at c. The position ofthe sadirons in heating is shown in Fig. l. The heel e of the sad-iron rests, as usual, upon the ledge c at the lower end of the bearing c; butthe sad-iron would not be held to its bearing unless itshandle e were upheld by the support F, which projects laterally from the main portion oi' the stove and at a sufficient distance therefrom and at the proper level to receive the sad-iron handle, and thereby keep the iron against the bearing c. The improve ment is best carried out by making the support F in the form of a rail, f, attached to arms f', which' in turn are adapted to loe attached to the main portion of the stove, and, to better hold the sad-iron in position, some part ofthe support-say the arm f-is slotted, as atfl, to receive the enlarged part e2 of the sad-iron handle, all substantially as is cX- hibited in the drawings.

One or more of the supports F can be used, as shown in Fig. 3, or the two supports F F, Fig. 3, can, at the pointsf", be united to form a continuous support. The support F can, as stated, serve as a foot-rail.

I claimrFhe combination ofthe laterally-projecting sad-iron support slotted, as described, to receive the sad-iron handles, with the fire-pot of a cook or other stove, enlarging upward, and having the usual sad-iron bearings, substantially as described. y

JOSEPH T. DUGDALE.

Titnessesz C. D. MOODY, A. M. Evnnrsfr. 

